Hindu Nationalists Win Elections

India's main Hindu nationalist party swept to an impressive election victory Sunday in the western state of Gujarat after a bitter campaign fought in the shadow of deadly 2002 anti-Muslim riots that still scar the state.

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The past week was full of events that invariably induce fear and anxiety: serial blasts in Assam, killings in Bengal and ambushes in Jharkhand and Manipur, apart from being the first anniversary of the terror attacks in Mumbai.

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Satya Sai Baba of Puthaparthi in his recent tour of Mumbai (Nov. 2009) was invited by the Maharashtra Chief Minister designate, Ashok Chavan to his official residence, Varsha, for blessing the house and for the associated puja (invocation).

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Twenty five years ago, on the morning of 1 November 1984, I woke up in London to get ready for school. My parents, of Indian Sikh origin, sat staring at the television screen. Nobody told us to brush our teeth, or to stop messing around with our Ready Brek.

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To beef up air defence capabilities and react in quickest possible time along the international border with Pakistan, the Indian Air Force has decided to station all its MiG 29 squadrons at Adampur, the second largest Air Force base in the country.

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In a pattern which has become increasingly familiar in many parts of India, but particularly in Gujarat, once again in the run-up to the assembly by elections in Gujarat, a number of Muslim youth were picked up by police officials in plain clothes, illegally detained and severely …

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AHMEDABAD: The Nanavati Commission probing the 2002 riots in Gujarat on Saturday asked the staff of chief minister Narendra Modi to provide details of their phone conversations with ministers during the riots that killed over 1,000 people, most of them Muslims.

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MUMBAI: A day after the Ahmedabad Metropolitan court ruled that Ishrat Jahan was killed in a fake encounter, the family has asked for the harshest punishment to be meted out to the guilty cops.

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Jaswant Singh's controversial book on Jinnah is selling like hot cakes in Gujarat after the state high court lifted the Modi government ban on it.

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NEW YORK: Indian Muslim Council - USA, (IMC-USA: ), an advocacy group working towards safeguarding India's pluralist and tolerant ethos, called the decision of fDi magazine not to honor Narendra Modi the Asian Personality of 2009 award as a step in the righ …

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The humiliating electoral defeat continues to dodge the BJP. In quick succession lot of things are happening, old pillars are crumbling, earlier cracks are on display with bigger clarity and those who joined the party in the hope of basking in the glory of power are deserting.

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The Indian state of Gujarat, which is BJP controlled, now moves to ban the book on Pakistan's founding father, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. It was written by Jaswant Singh, India's ex-foreign minister who was now expelled from the BJP political party.

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A US congressional body has put India on a list of countries which have failed to protect its religious minorities adequately.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the release of its 2009 country report on India, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) placed India on its "Watch List" today for the government's largely inadequate response in protecting its religious minorities.

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NO ONE knows what the Liberhan Commission report contains, and the prime minister and home minister are far too honourable to allow any leaks. But this has not prevented a spate of rumour and speculation about its contents.

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AHMEDABAD, Gujarat : In a surreptitious move, the government of Gujarat, through its legal department has issued a notification appointing a Commission of Inquiry to inquire and report on the "polarisation of population on the basis of religion taking place in the State of Guja …

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Dalits in India have come under serious attack and intimidation, preventing many from voting in the country's much publicised elections, and human rights organisations are warning of further violence and targeted attacks in the next phase of voting...

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Punjab is burning. The Dalits are at the street. The government is seeking peace and every one is amused why the Dalits have taken to the street.

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HUMAN FAITH WITHOUT CASTE

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Ahmedabad: The probe into the complaint filed against Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 62 others in connection with the post-Godhra riots of 2002 began today with Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team(SIT) "interacting'' with Zakia Jafri and Teesta Setalvad...

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IT WAS as if a burden had been lifted.

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Has the Bharatiya Janata Party abandoned even the pretence of playing by democratic rules and observing minimal political decorum and decided to stoop to the lowest possible level? Going by its reaction to the Supreme Court's order to the Special Investigation Team to inquire int …

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Sitting in a cab or the more convenient three-wheelers called autorickshaws, while your driver negotiates the madness of India's roads, you would be forgiven to think you are in your own city. For all Indian cities look the same.

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On March 6, 2009, the great-grandson of first Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru and scion of a family dynasty, Varun Gandhi, while making rabble-rousing comments against Muslims during his election campaign in the town of Pilibhit

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Narain Kataria admits to 50% of India cum Nepal , mainly mineral rich region and huge hydro power resource has gone in to Moist Rule. "Maoists have already overthrown the Hindu government and taken over the neighboring Nepal .

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Maya Kodnani's arrest on the charges of rioting during the 2002 Gujarat outbreak is yet another inglorious first for the saffron brotherhood. A few months ago, another woman, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, was incarcerated for involvement in acts of terrorism.

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